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but I'll make myself a pair out of the skin of a moufflon one of these days." Orso slipped two five-franc pieces into the bandit's hand.
"It was Colomba who sent you the powder.

This is to buy the shoes." "Nonsense, Lieutenant!" cried Brandolaccio, handing him back the two coins.

"D'ye take me for a beggar?
I accept bread and powder, but I won't have anything else!" "We are both old soldiers, so I thought we might have given each other a lift.

Well, good-bye to you!" But before he moved away he had slipped the money into he bandit's wallet, unperceived by him.
"Good-bye, Ors' Anton'," quoth the theologian.